Kate Moss: A model life

Updated 1:38 PM ET, Mon June 8, 2015

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In an industry known for its fair-weather philosophy, Kate Moss has manged to maintain a flourishing modeling career for more than 25 years. The photo above was Moss' first modeling shot -- taken in 1988 when she was just 14. British photographer David Ross, who rediscovered the image several years ago, says he turned Moss away at first because she arrived at his studio unaccompanied by an adult.

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Ross said that despite having little idea what she was doing, the teenage Moss "just had a certain edge in her natural expression, and there was a look in her eye in her very first pictures that we are still familiar with today."

Photographer Kim Knott stands at his camera addressing an assistant as Moss strikes a pose during a 1995 shoot in New York City.

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While Moss is known to shy away from most interviews, her private life has remained the subject of heated speculation and intrigue. Her four-year relationship with film star Johnny Depp, which ended in 1998, was irresistible camera fodder.

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Moss has her hair tonged backstage at a show in 1999.

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Moss' turbulent, on-and-off relationship with musician Pete Doherty regularly captured headlines in the British press for all the wrong reasons. The couple is seen here in 2006.

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Rock star Jamie Hince and Moss pose for photographs after their wedding in July 2011.

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Moss walks the runway during a Louis Vuitton show in 2013. Despite some potentially career-ending controversies -- she was dropped from a number of lucrative contracts following reports of drug abuse -- Moss has never fallen out of favor for long. And even as she approached 40 she was still one of the world's highest-paid models.

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Moss has inspired the creativity of many artists. Here, she poses beside "She's Light (Laser 3)" by Chris Levine at Christie's Auction House in London in September 2013.

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Moss poses for photographers in September 2013. Allen Jones' photograph "Body Armour," seen at left, sold for $52,000. The one on the right, "Kate 'Aladdin Sane' " by Nick Knight, sold for more than $47,000.